My search for "the perfect Linux operating system" this time brings me to the latest incarnation of Ubuntu, version 5.04, also known as the "Hoary Hedgehog Release". Previously I was using Fedora Core 4, however due to some minor bugs it had, I wanted to try something different.

so reinstall i386 version... meh comes back with irq=255 , so again no modem support....

since i live in the moutains, all i got is dialup.. once installed, its like every other debian install (ie: hopeless for developers as it does not install header files for anything as a base package. aka no ncurses.h etc).

its great that has the c/c++ compilers on the cd, but what good are they if only have headers files for libc??

i could have fixed this had i had my dialup access... meh.. lucent winmodems.